And naturally some artists adopt Los Angeles precisely because it is not New York. Max Jansons, a Los Angeles painter who is a New York native, graduated from UCLA, then returned to Columbia University for a master's degree. He now lives in Santa Monica.
"I like having time to be in my studio without being surrounded by tons of different voices and seeing all these different shows and being part of that activity," Jansons said. "There's something very focused about your time here in the studio that I never really had in New York when I was there."
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